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June D. MacArtor papers
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June D. MacArtor was born to Thomas and Rosa Duboise in 1930 in Vanceboro, South Carolina. Raised in North Carolina, MacArtor attended the University of Tennessee where she received a bachelor's degree in Sociology in 1949. She met Frank MacArtor at Tennessee, marrying him in 1948 before moving to Wilmington, Delaware, to raise a family. Frank's job moved the family to California, where June received a certificate from the University of Southern California Pollution Control Institute. Before the family moved back to the Wilmington area, MacArtor realized a permanent pollution control job was closed to women at the time, prompting her to enroll in law school at Villanova University Law School. MacArtor received her law degree and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1974, becoming one of the first 25 women lawyers admitted to the Delaware Bar.
After graduation, MacArtor took a position in the Attorney General's office, Department of Natural Resources. In that office, she not only helped establish Delaware's environmental management codes and policies, but also defended the landmark Coastal Zone Act. MacArtor's primary roles were creating environmental regulations and building court cases to establish a code of environmental law for the state of Delaware. She served as the Chief of the Environmental Law Group for Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) in the 1980s before retiring in 1990 as the Deputy Director of the Delaware Division of Air and Waste Management.
MacArtor was also a key figure in her community. MacArtor served as president of the Wilmington League of Women Voters, and was a longtime advisory board member of The Wilmington Women in Business and the Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center Advisory Council. She spent over twenty years on the New Castle County Planning Board and volunteered with the Delaware Nature Society in her spare time. After her retirement in 1990, MacArtor began serving on the boards of the local chapter of the Air and Waste Management Association, the Delaware Nature Society, and the Brandywine-Christiana Rivers Task Force. MacArtor passed away on June 13, 2013, at the age of eighty-three, leaving a legacy of environmental advocacy.
"June D. MacArtor Esquire." The News Journal, June 23, 2013, xlink:href=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/delawareonline/obituary.aspx?n=june-d-macartor&pid=165398405&fhid=7881"xlink:type="simple">www.legacy.com/obituaries/delawareonline/obituary.aspx?n=june-d-macartor&pid=165398405&fhid=7881" (accessed March 19, 2019)The June D. MacArtor papers reflect the long career of one of Delaware's first female lawyers. Spanning from (1934-2009), the collection reflects MacArtor's many positions within the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the Delaware Division of Air and Waste Management, and the New Castle County Planning Board. The collection predominantly includes published reports and material pertaining to environmental policy and issue areas such as clean air, the Coastal Zone, and Superfund. The collection also documents MacArtor's well-known legacy as an environmental leader within her community, as an active member of groups like the League of Women Voters, Wilmington Women in Business and the Delaware Nature Society. The collection is divided into four series.
Series I "Environmental Regulation" contains materials acquired by MacArtor during her time as Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Director of the Division of Air and Waste Management, as well as other notable positions. Series II "Community and the Environment" encompasses MacArtor's advocacy work with groups like the League of Women Voters and the Delaware Nature Society. MacArtor taught environmental law and policy at Widener University and the University of Delaware; those materials are also included. Series III "Professional Materials" encompasses general professional materials that MacArtor referenced throughout her work. Series IV "Personal" houses her personal correspondence, date books, and biographical content.
Boxes 1-31, 34-35: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartons
Boxes 32-33: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes (3 inches)
Oversize removals: Shelved in MSS oversize mapcases
Audiocasettes: Shelved in SPEC MSS Media audio cassettes
Gifts of June D. MacArtor, 1998-2009
Processed and encoded by Anna Nuzzolese, April 2019.
Organization
- Delaware. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
- Wilmington Metropolitan Area Planning Coordinating Council
- Delaware Nature Society
- League of Women Voters of Greater Wilmington, Delaware
Subject
- Conservation of natural resources--Delaware
- Political participation
- Water-supply--Delaware--History--20th century
- Watershed management
- Coastal zone management--Delaware
- Air--Pollution--Delaware
- Environmental protection--Delaware
Place
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2019 April 30
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec
Collection Inventory
This series encompasses reports and published reference material related to numerous issues that MacArtor dealt with throughout her career with the Division of Air and Waste Management, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources, as an attorney, and on the planning board for New Castle County. The series is broken down into subseries reflecting the different issue areas.
The Takings Clause, derived from the Fifth Amendment, states that private property cannot be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The Public Trust Doctrine holds in trust for public use some resources such as shoreline, regardless of private property ownership.
"Lightering" is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker.
These maps reference planning projects discussed during MacArtor's time on the New Castle County Planning Board. When maps reference projects that are cited in this collection, a note has been made.
2 maps
15 maps
7 maps
7 maps
2 maps
4 maps
2 maps
Report included
2 maps and aerial picture
2 maps
22 maps
3 maps
This series illuminates MacArtor's role as a community leader, encompassing published pamphlets and reportsmaterials related to her advocacy work with the League of Women Voters. Included also are course materials from MacArtor's teaching career at Widener University and the University of Delaware.
This subseries chronicles avenues citizens could take to become involved in environemental regulation and decision-making through published pamphlets and handouts disseminated at community meetings and events.
MacArtor was a member of both the national and Delaware Leaugue of Women Voters, serving as president of the Delaware league in the early 1960s.
MacArtor taught undergraduate environmental policy classes at both Widener University and the University of Delaware in the 1990s.
This subseries documents reference material that MacArtor compliled and used throughout her career as supplemental knowledge to issue areas she worked in.
Compendium of legal materials used by MacArtor during law school. Includes annotations.
Compendium of legal materials used by MacArtor during law school. Includes annotations.
Excerpt of MacArtor's library of reference materials. These books were kept as they offer the most all encompassing reference to her issue areas of interest.
A run of children's magazines from June MacArtor's childhood, including
Child Life, St. Nicholas, Children's Playmate Magazine, and Wee Wisdom. Also includes a 1961 issue of Highlights magazine.